In the Major Leagues, the most recent example of a swing at an intentional ball resulting in a hit occurred during a June 22, 2006 game between the Florida Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles.

In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs.

Band performance in Florida on October 1, 2006

In late September 2006, a team of ornithologists from Auburn University and the University of Windsor published reports of their own sightings of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers along the Choctawhatchee River in northwest Florida, beginning in 2005 ( Hill et al., 2006 ).

Murat's album with his " San Francisco / Miami Impressions " was recorded in Miami, Florida and was published in 2005 as Automaton² ( Automaton Squared ) followed by " Binfen 2005 Remix ", " Electric Levantine " ( 2006 ), " Umami " ( 2007 ) and " Beside the Sun " ( 2010 ).

* 2006 – College football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.

On August 20, 2006, in Tampa, Florida, most of the state leadership members of the street gang, the Latin Kings, were arrested in connection with RICO conspiracy charges to engage in racketeering and currently await trial.

* Smith, Joshua M., Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783 – 1820 ( Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2006 ).

In the 2006 election, the Latin American vote aided tremendously in the election of Florida Senator Mel Martinez, although in the 2004 presidential election, about 44 % of Latin Americans voted for Republican President George W. Bush.

In 2006, in the Florida case Frazier v. Alexandre, a federal district court in Florida ruled that a 1942 state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U. S. Constitution.

Four players have hit a grand slam on their first major-league at-bat: Bill Duggleby in 1898, Jeremy Hermida of the Florida Marlins, Kevin Kouzmanoff, then playing for the Cleveland Indians, off Edinson Volquez of the Texas Rangers on September 2, 2006, and Daniel Nava, then playing for the Boston Red Sox, off Joe Blanton of the Philadelphia Phillies on June 12, 2010.

The Palm Coast, Florida MSA was first defined as a Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2006.

In that time, the Big East has seen the emergence of new national players West Virginia rising to as high as No. 1 and was ranked in the Top 10 for three-straight years ( 2005, 2006, 2007 ) ( South Florida rising as high as No. 2, Cincinnati and Louisville both as high as No. 3, Rutgers as high as No. 7, Pittsburgh as high as No. 9, and Connecticut as high as No. 13 in BCS standings ).

In 2006, Louisiana – Monroe joined the conference as a member in all sports when it left the Southland Conference, and Florida Atlantic joined the conference in all sports.

This led to the formation of Palmer Course Design in 1972, which was renamed Arnold Palmer Design Company when the company moved to Orlando Florida in 2006.

GOES-13 ( which was designated GOES-N prior to orbiting ) was launched by a Delta IV rocket from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 22: 11 GMT May 24, 2006.

Due to the 41 – 14 loss Ohio State suffered to Florida, Boise State became the only team to finish the 2006 season with an undefeated record.

Urban Meyer and the Florida Gators used this effectively from 2006 to 2009 with Tim Tebow.

Coincidentally, having won a championship while managing the Florida Marlins in 1997, Tigers manager Jim Leyland could have achieved this same feat had the Tigers defeated La Russa's Cardinals in the 2006 World Series.

The Indians, who had held their spring training in Tucson, Arizona, for many years until moving to Winter Haven, Florida, in 1993, agreed to return their spring training location back to Arizona on December 21, 2006.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

On April 6, 2006, in a case arising from a game involving community college baseball teams, the Supreme Court of California ruled that baseball players in California assume the risk of being hit by baseballs even if the balls were intentionally thrown so as to cause injury.

DADT was upheld by five of the federal Courts of Appeal, The Supreme Court, in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc. ( 2006 ), unanimously held that the federal government could constitutionally withhold funding from universities, no matter what their nondiscrimination policies might be, for refusing to give military recruiters access to school resources.

In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U. S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In 2006, the Supreme Court decided Clark v. Arizona upheld Arizona's limitations on the insanity defense.

* 2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U. S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U. S. and international law.

During his military career, he served as Commander, United States European Command ( COMUSEUCOM ) and Supreme Allied Commander Europe ( SACEUR ) from 2003 to 2006 and as the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1999 to January 2003.

Although Weah was still threatening to take his claims to the Supreme Court if no evidence of fraud was found, Johnson-Sirleaf was declared winner on November 23, 2005, and took office on January 16, 2006.

However, on January 20, 2006, the Turkish Supreme Court ruled that his time served in Italy could not be deducted from his Turkish sentence and he was returned to jail.

Before 2006 democracy movement in Nepal forced King to restore democracy in 2006, Article 119 of the 1990 constitution stated that the His Majesty the King is the Supreme Commander of the Royal Nepal Army.

The Alaska Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that a " conviction based on a no contest plea will collaterally estop the criminal defendant from denying any element in a subsequent civil action against him that was necessarily established by the conviction, as long as the prior conviction was for a serious criminal offense and the defendant in fact had the opportunity for a full and fair hearing ".

On April 26, 2006, the Supreme Court heard Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Williams,, which concerned what sort of corporations fell under the scope of RICO.

The case was won by the city on a technical issue after it reached the U. S. Supreme Court in DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, 547 U. S. ___ ( 2006 ).

On February 21, 2006, the Supreme Court of Appeal gave him leave to sue Philip Morris, demonstrating that a vexatious litigant is not completely blocked from launching further court action.

However, a closely divided US Supreme Court decision, Garcetti v. Ceballos ( 2006 ) held that the First Amendment free speech guarantees for government employees do not protect disclosures made within the scope of the employees ' duties.

** Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice ( d. 2006 )

* March 26 – Sandra Day O ' Connor, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( 1981 – 2006 )

The Supreme Court summarily affirmed that decision in 2006.

In 2006, the United States Supreme Court issued two decisions on campaign finance.

Also in 2006, the Supreme Court held that a Vermont law imposing mandatory limits on spending was unconstitutional, under the precedent of Buckley v. Valeo.

The 2006 extension of the preclearance procedure was challenged in a lawsuit, Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder, which was argued before the Supreme Court on April 30, 2009.

This gave rise to the 2006 U. S. Supreme Court antitrust case of Texaco Inc. v. Dagher, which cleared both Texaco and Shell of any antitrust liability concerning the pricing of Equilon's gasoline.

Dinh and Sales argued that the Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006 satisfies the Constitution ’ s Bicameralism and Presentment Clause, and therefore avoids the constitutional issues raised in the 1996 Act struck down by the Supreme Court.